| The "fishing" people need to care about in the 21st | | | | signing into such as Facebook, but will really be a |
| century isn't the fishing that happens with a rod and | | | | mirror site. The mirror sites requires you to login |
| some worms for bait. Phishing is a malicious security | | | | several times, gaining your account information. |
| threat that endangers computer users around the | | | | Phishing is prevalent among social networking |
| world. Phishing costs the United States almost a billion | | | | websites and financial services. The scam is popular |
| dollars annually. From the novice computer users to | | | | with sites like eBay and Amazon where financial gains |
| the most tech savvy, phishing is tricky and requires a | | | | can be made. |
| well-trained eye to understand and catch. | | | | Phishing is difficult to spot because scammers go to |
| Phishing occurs when a person uses illegal computer | | | | extra lengths to pretend to be someone they are |
| tricks to obtain sensitive information. This information | | | | not. The fake site's text will often be borrowed from |
| includes account names, password, home addresses, | | | | the actual sites. |
| email address, pin numbers, social security numbers, | | | | Ways to detect phishing |
| credit card number and general contact information. | | | | Site links will give away the site more often than not. |
| The origin of "phishing" shares a link with fishing. | | | | Though many phishing attempts rely on misspelled |
| Attackers use a variety of methods randomly | | | | addresses, a person with a keen eye for spelling can |
| distributed to many people with a common | | | | find the deceptive site by comparing the address to |
| connection. The phishing attacks are fishing because | | | | an actual site. Still certain malware can cover up the |
| they are cast to a large pool of people and only a | | | | address bar, masking that a browser is going to a |
| few will take the bait. The bait like a fake lure is a | | | | fraudulent site. |
| deceptive purpose masked as a real and genuine | | | | Search the actual place you want to go in a major |
| opportunity. The essence of phishing is something or | | | | search engine such as Bing or Google. Then link to |
| someone pretended to be something they are not. | | | | the site from there. Links in emails should not be |
| The ways phishing occurs | | | | trusted. The address in the email could appear |
| Email | | | | accurate, but direct to a hidden address. |
| People will send out mass emails to a large pool of | | | | Enable all security settings in your browser. |
| people. The emails promise an opportunity that is not | | | | Use spam filters to hide phishing emails in junk mail |
| real. The email may have the banner of Yahoo | | | | since most phishing emails are mass emails, a form of |
| services, but will instead be from a person who went | | | | spam. |
| through detailed lengths to pull off the sham. These | | | | Being aware of phishing is essential to stopping one |
| fake emails will also appear to be from places such as | | | | of the internet's most threatening and fastest |
| a bank. When the scam works, valuable financial | | | | growing crime waves. Phishing contributes to high |
| information is given to the scammer. | | | | incidences of identity theft, bank fraud, wire fraud |
| Fake or spoofed website | | | | and account theft. |
| The website will look like the site you're used to | | | | |